Re: Plug and play not working

"news.rcn.com" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I posted recently about my Laserjet 5MP not working and got various
>responses which indicated that I should junk it
>
> Offended at these suggestions, it suddenly started working again
>
> But mysteriously plug and play has stopped working for LPT1 in that when I
> plug it in, I dont get the auto-detect icon and set up in the systray like
> other devices (and obviously the computer cant see the printer).
>
> LPT1 is showing OK in device manager (as an ecp printer port, - there
> deosnt seem to be a way of changing this in the BIOS of this HP Pavilion
> notebook)
>
> Anyone got any idea why this should have suddenly started to happen
> please?
>

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"Cari (MS-MVP)" <> wrote in message
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> Try a different cable.
> --
> Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging
> www.coribright.com/windows
>
> "news.rcn.com" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>I posted recently about my Laserjet 5MP not working and got various
>>responses which indicated that I should junk it
>>
>> Offended at these suggestions, it suddenly started working again
>>
>> But mysteriously plug and play has stopped working for LPT1 in that when
>> I plug it in, I dont get the auto-detect icon and set up in the systray
>> like other devices (and obviously the computer cant see the printer).
>>
>> LPT1 is showing OK in device manager (as an ecp printer port, - there
>> deosnt seem to be a way of changing this in the BIOS of this HP Pavilion
>> notebook)
>>
>> Anyone got any idea why this should have suddenly started to happen
>> please?
>>
>

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